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TIL Dubai held a weight loss competition where they gave out 1 gram of gold for every kilogram lost by the participants

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Nym8 TIL that in 1985, a woman suspected of smuggling drugs was detained at LAX. After over 16 hours, she passed 88 balloons filled with cocaine.
Abgg TIL Nintendo actually bred its own type of flower to market their series “Pikmin”. This flower the Chaenostoma cordatum also known as the bacopa cabana is also called the “Pikmin flower” for that reason.
mxreY TIL in 2012 three researchers proved that many classic Nintendo games are NP-hard by developing a framework for reducing the 3SAT problem to any platform game. This means the question "given a finite level of a game, can the player move from start to finish?" is not computable in polynomial time.
ke67 TIL Melanie Griffith was nicknamed Brainiac in 1992, because she didn’t know Germans had “done bad things” to Jews during World War II until working on the set of Shining Through. She was 34.
wLJpM TIL of Sidney Lewis, the youngest person to ever serve in the British Army. He lied about his age, and enlisted in the Army at 12 years old in 1915, and would go on to fight for several weeks in the trenches at the Battle of Somme before his mother discovered and requested he be discharged.